Assignment: Inferential I

Using els_plans.dta, please answer the following questions. Use comments to respond as necessary.

Questions

1. Run a correlation of both math and reading scores against whether the father has a Bachelor’s degree (fath_ba) or the mother has a Bachelor’s degree (moth_ba). In what ways, if any, is this different than what you get when using the combined par_ba indicator variable?
2. Run a t-test of reading scores against whether the father has a Bachelor’s degree (fath_ba).
3. Compare this to the output from t.test() above. How is it different?

Submission details

• Save your script (<lastname>_assignment_inferential.R) in your scripts directory.
• Push changes to your repo (the new script and new folder) to GitHub prior to the next class session.